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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

3180. Are We Happy?

When are we happy,
as philosophers put it? When we generously give ourselves to other people, in
full service.

And we can carry out this way by means of fulfilling our
professional work in a nice and competent way plus serving others. When we
conduct in that way we’re making ourselves susceptible of being happy.

The
first premise is giving ourselves to God: that transcendent way of acting makes
our lives become precisely that, transcendent, able to go beyond, which is the
meaning of “transcendent”. If every single day we go to the office or wherever else
to fulfill our duties in a clean way, we’re making ourselves able to be
transcendent, because we overwhelm our possible selfishness.

And then we can smile
in an honest way. And we’ll find ourselves loving everybody else. With benevolence
love, which means wishing what’s good to the others. I’ve seen it in several
lives. This is my opinion. / Photo from: executive-looking-through-the-window-with-the-mobile-phone_1098-3569
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